PhoneGap: Building Mobile Applications with HTML/JS

An overview of PhoneGap. Covers the basics about what PhoneGap is, how to get started, how to use the device APIs, and how to debug it along with some other things to consider when building mobile applications with HTML/JS/CSS.

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For added functionality PhoneGap provides a plug-in mechanism. Includes OS-speciﬁc code/libraries and the JS to use it in PhoneGap Some of the helpful ones: PayPal, Facebook, Push NotiﬁcationMonday, January 23, 2012

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Plug-is are one of the areas that show off the power of a hybrid web/ native approach. There are a ton of native-centric SDKs (like Facebook) that provide a great native experience. We can use those!Monday, January 23, 2012

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Available at https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-pluginsMonday, January 23, 2012

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This app can just use the plugins.barcodeScanner.scan method to call out to some native code that reads and parses a barcode.Monday, January 23, 2012